{"id":378,"date":"2014-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/40-seepex-brings-clean-water-to-malawi-project-puts-enon-on-global-map\/"},"modified":"2014-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T00:00:00","slug":"40-seepex-brings-clean-water-to-malawi-project-puts-enon-on-global-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/40-seepex-brings-clean-water-to-malawi-project-puts-enon-on-global-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Seepex Brings Clean Water To Malawi\u2014Project Puts Enon On Global Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Representatives from seepex, Inc. would like to invite area residents and business owners to a sort of \u201cshow and tell\u201d event being held at the business Thursday, January 30, that will showcase the company\u2019s work with non-profit organizations installing water pumps in third world countries.<\/p>\n

Kamran Mirza, Director of Business Development at seepex, Inc., said this project will \u201cput Enon on the global map,\u201d as the company is manufacturing water pumps that will be used to bring water to citizens of Malawi, a small Republic in southeastern Africa. \u201cMany third world countries do not have access to clean drinking water,\u201d Mirza said. \u201cAnd if they do, they have to walk miles and miles just to find it.<\/p>\n

\"\"A team from Design Outreach successfully installed a LIFEPUMP in Zolomondo, a Malawi village, on December 11, 2013. Photo from Design Outreach.Through the collaboration with Design Outreach, a non-profit organization striving to create life-sustaining solutions for developing countries, and World Vision, a larger umbrella organization over many charitable entities, seepex, Inc. is literally changing the lives of many Malawians by manufacturing hand-operated water pumps to be used directly within a village or town. Mirza said the collaboration was started with the Central African Republic, but shifted to Malawi because many of the continent\u2019s nations are now gripped in the throes of civil war. Malawi, Mirza said, is very peaceful.<\/p>\n

Mirza said the project is beneficial to residents of Malawi and Clark County alike, as the water pumps being manufactured here aid the local community in terms of employment. \u201cThis helps the global community get clean drinking water, and it improves the local community and economy as well, because this project requires the use of advanced materials, and we are very blessed with a lot of good material suppliers in this area,\u201d Mirza said, adding that the need for such supplies would likely provide more employment opportunities for workers in Clark County. \u201cIt\u2019s a humanitarian effort on behalf of the community\u2014it provides clean drinking water for the world, and it creates more jobs that will help the local economy too.\u201d<\/p>\n

seepex, Inc., which manufactures the \u201ckey elements\u201d of these water pumps, was not motivated by profit to collaborate on this project, Mirza said. \u201cWe have the knowledge and the resources to do it, so it helps to give back to the community,\u201d he said. \u201cThe intent is that this program will continue to grow,\u201d said Mirza, adding that seepex, Inc. manufactured 100 of these water pumps this year, with ten pumps already installed and running in Africa. \u201cIf it goes well, maybe we can make 1,000 pumps per year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representatives from Design Outreach travel to remote locations such as Malawi to understand each area\u2019s specific needs, and partner with businesses such as seepex, Inc. in order to better-serve the region, but in most cases, water is the number one demand. Design Outreach says 780 million people in the world lack access to clean drinking water. That\u2019s more people than the entire combined population of every European nation. Design Outreach, in collaboration with manufacturers such as seepex, Inc., created LIFEPUMP, a hand-cranked water pump capable of reaching water hundreds of feet deep.<\/p>\n

Mirza said videos were taken of people in Africa during their new well\u2019s first operation, and their reactions were undeniably touching. \u201cThese videos\u2026when the people see the water coming up from the ground for the first time, the entire village breaks out in song\u2026it changes their way of life completely,\u201d said Mirza.<\/p>\n

All are invited to learn more about this program by visiting seepex, Inc. on Thursday, January 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. Mirza said guests will be able to touch and see elements of this project, as well as being shown videos of recipients of the water pumps in Africa. seepex, Inc. is located at 511 Speedway Drive in Enon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Representatives from seepex, Inc. would like to invite area residents and business owners to a sort of \u201cshow and tell\u201d event being held at the business Thursday, January 30, that will showcase the company\u2019s work with non-profit organizations installing water pumps in third world countries. Kamran Mirza, Director of Business Development at seepex, Inc., said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enoneagle.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}